CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT


By John Stuart Mill



Author Of "A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive"






CONTENTS


Preface


Chapter I—To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice.

Chapter II—The Criterion of a Good Form of Government.

Chapter III—That the ideally best Form of Government is Representative Government.

Chapter IV—Under what Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable.

Chapter V—Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies.

Chapter VI—Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable.

Chapter VII—Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only.

Chapter VIII—Of the Extension of the Suffrage.

Chapter IX—Should there be Two Stages of Election?

Chapter X—Of the Mode of Voting.

Chapter XI—Of the Duration of Parliaments.

Chapter XII—Ought Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament?

Chapter XIII—Of a Second Chamber.

Chapter XIV—Of the Executive in a Representative Government.

Chapter XV—Of Local Representative Bodies.

Chapter XVI—Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government.

Chapter XVII—Of Federal Representative Governments.

Chapter XVIII—Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State.

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Preface

Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however, in the fact of bringing them together, and exhibiting them in their connection, and also, I believe, in much that is brought forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little

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